optical fibre in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for optical fibre in the English»French Dictionary

optical fibre Brit, optical fiber Am N

optical fibre

fibre f optique

Translations for optical fibre in the English»French Dictionary

optical [Brit ˈɒptɪk(ə)l, Am ˈɑptək(ə)l] ADJ (all contexts)

optical

optique

fibre Brit, fiber Am [Brit ˈfʌɪbə, Am ˈfaɪbər] N

1. fibre (filament, strand):

fibre (of thread, wood)

fibre f

2. fibre TEXTIL:

fibre

fibre f

a synthetic/artificial fibre

une fibre synthétique/artificielle

3. fibre (in diet):

fibre

fibres fpl

a high fibre diet

une alimentation riche en fibres

4. fibre:

fibre BOT (cell)

fibre f

fibre PHYSIOL (of muscle, nerve)

fibre f

root fibres

radicelles fpl

5. fibre (strength):

fibre fig

courage m

optical fibre in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for optical fibre in the English»French Dictionary

optical ADJ

optical

optique

optical illusion

d'optique

fiber [ˈfɪbəʳ, Am -ɚ] N Am, fibre N

fiber

fibre f

moral fiber

qualités fpl morales

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Because optical fibre repair times are long, the backbone network follows two physically diverse paths.

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The same panels are impregnated with an array of optical fibre which can be illuminated at night to display different messages according to the season.

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This is substantially less than the wavelength of the light itself, and is analogous to a subwavelength-diameter optical fibre.

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Latency has as a lower bound determined by the speed of light; this corresponds to about 3.3 milliseconds per 1,000 kilometers of optical fibre.

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The spectrograph operates by feeding an individual optical fibre for each target through a hole drilled in an aluminum plate.

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The controller is a 16-bit microprocessor that communicates using optical fibre cables.

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Most parts of the country as well as neighboring countries are connected via optical fibre networks.

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Its national optical fibre network was partially deployed via the overhead power transmission network of the grid.

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In optical fibre systems, the polarization direction is typically dispersed in non polarization maintaining systems.

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The focal plane is tiled with 4000 fibre-positioning units, each feeding an optical fibre which transfers light to one of sixteen 250-channel spectrographs below.

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